Next year is election year for all 105 seats in the Alabama House of Representatives, and most lawmakers in the Republican majority and the Democratic minority are setting their sights on another four-year term.
Fifty-nine of 77 Republicans in the House have said they are running for re-election or are planning to do so.
At least 23 of the 27 Democrats in the House said they are running or plan to run for another term.
(There is one vacant House seat.)
Two other Democratic lawmakers, Reps. Louise Alexander of Birmingham and Merika Coleman of Pleasant Grove, will run for the Senate seat held by Sen. Priscilla Dunn, D-Birmingham, who is not seeking another term. Rep. Rod Scott, D-Fairfield, told Alabama Daily News he is also considering a run for Dunn’s seat.
No Democrats in the House told AL.com they are not planning to run next year.
Thirteen Republicans are not running or have decided to run for a different office. Four others said they are undecided or are not ready to make an announcement.
The primary is May 24, 2022.
While about 70% of representatives say they will run again, the GOP leadership in the House will change.
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, who has led the chamber since 2016, is retiring after next year. House Rules Committee Chairman Mike Jones, R-Andalusia, is running for Sen. Jimmy Holley’s Senate seat instead of re-election. Holley is retiring.
The House education budget committee chairman, Rep. Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, is leaving the Legislature to become state finance director.
House Minority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville, and House General Fund budget chairman Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, are the announced candidates for speaker. McCutcheon will continue as speaker through the remainder of his term, which ends in November 2022.
Rep. Connie Rowe, R-Jasper, who is vice chair of the House Republican caucus, has also been mentioned as a possible candidate for speaker but has said she thought it was too early to commit to run with the caucus not due to make a decision until December 2022.
Rep. Becky Nordgen, R-Gadsden, who is leaving the House to become the Etowah County Revenue Commissioner in October, said she believes the leadership will be in good hands.
“Everybody I’ve heard interested in that spot would be very good and would lead in a manner in my mind very similar to Speaker McCutcheon in that they would be fair, easy to correspond with and engaged in what is going on at the time,” Nordgren said. She has been in the House since Republicans captured the majority in 2010.
Rep. Randy Wood, R-Anniston, said McCutcheon and Rules Chairman Jones will be missed. Wood has been in the House since 2002 and is running for another term.
“I think Speaker McCutcheon has done an outstanding job,” Wood said. “I hate to see him go. Same as the rules chairman. He’s done a great job.”
Rep. Juandalynn Givan, D-Birmingham, who has been in the House since 2010, has had her differences with McCutcheon and hopes to see positive changes. Givan is running for a fourth term.
“I think that you’ll see where there will be more transparency in the processes,” Givan said. “There will be more structure and more organization with new leadership. Whether I get re-elected or not, I hope that will be the case. I hope that fairness is there for all ends of the spectrum whether you be Republican or Democrat.”
House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels of Huntsville is seeking another term, as is Rep. Chris England of Tuscaloosa, chair of the Alabama Democratic Party.
In addition to McCutcheon, Jones, Poole, and Nordgren, nine other Republicans have said they are not running for re-election:
- Rep. Wes Allen of Troy is running for secretary of state.
- Rep. Mike Ball of Madison is retiring after serving in the House since 2002.
- Rep. K.L. Brown of Jacksonville is retiring after serving in the House since 2010.
- Rep. Allen Farley of McCalla is retiring after serving in the House since 2010.
- Rep. Steve McMillan is retiring after serving in the House since 1980.
- Rep. Harry Shiver of Stockton is retiring after serving in the House since 2006.
- Rep. Andrew Sorrell of Muscle Shoals, who is in his first term, is running for state auditor.
- Rep. Rodney Sullivan of Northport, who is in his first term, is not running for re-election.
- Rep. Rich Wingo of Tuscaloosa, who has served since 2014, said he is not running because he believes in term limits.
Rep. Victor Gaston, R-Mobile, who has served as speaker pro-tem of the House since 2010, is one of several representatives who are undecided or not ready to announce.
The others are Rep. Mike Holmes of Wetumpka, who has served in the House since 2014; Rep. Kerry Rich of Guntersville, who has served in the House since 2010 and also served from 1974 to 1978 and from 1990 to 1994; and Rep. Howard Sanderford of Huntsville, who has served since 1989.
Gaston said he would not be surprised if more representatives opted not to run before next year. Candidates have until Jan. 28 to qualify with their parties, which have not even started accepting qualifiers.
“I certainly don’t know that for a fact,” Gaston said. “It’s just a long way off.”
Republican representatives who said they are running or plan to run for re-election: Alan Baker of Brewton; Chris Blackshear of Phenix City; Russell Bedsole of Alabaster; Chip Brown of Mobile; Jim Carns of Birmingham; Steve Clouse of Ozark; Terri Collins of Decatur; Danny Crawford of Athens; Will Dismukes of Prattville; Dickie Drake of Leeds; Brett Easterbrook of Fruitdale; Corley Ellis of Columbiana;
Tracy Estes of Winfield; David Faulkner of Mountain Brook; Joe Faust of Fairhope; Bob Fincher of Woodland; Danny Garrett of Trussville; Lynn Greer of Rogersville; Tommy Hanes of Scottsboro; Corey Harbison of Cullman; Jim Hill of Moody; Steve Hurst of Munford; Gil Isbell of Gadsden; Reed Ingram of Montgomery; Jamie Kiel of Russellville; Wes Kitchens of Guntersville; Nathaniel Ledbetter of Rainsville; Paul Lee of Dothan;
Craig Lipscomb of Gadsden; Joe Lovvorn of Auburn; Rhett Marques of Enterprise; Charlotte Meadows of Montgomery; Arnold Mooney of Shelby County; Parker Moore of Decatur; Ed Oliver of Dadeville; Kenneth Paschal of Pelham; Phillip Pettus of Killen; Chris Pringle of Mobile; Rex Reynolds of Huntsville; Ben Robbins of Sylacauga; Proncey Robertson of Mount Hope; Connie Rowe of Jasper; Chris Sells of Greenville; Ginny Shaver of Leesburg, Randall Shedd of Baileyton; Matt Simpson of Daphne; Van Smith of Autauga County;
Jeff Sorrells of Hartford; Kyle South of Fayette; Scott Stadthagen of Hartselle; David Standridge of Hayden; Shane Stringer of Mobile; Allen Treadaway of Morris; David Wheeler of Vestavia Hills; Andy Whitt of Harvest; Ritchie Whorton of Scottsboro; Margie Wilcox of Mobile; Debbie Wood of Valley; Randy Wood of Anniston.
Democratic representatives who said they are running or plan to run: Barbara Boyd of Anniston; Napoleon Bracy of Mobile; Prince Chestnut of Selma; Adline Clarke of Mobile; Anthony Daniels of Huntsville; Chris England of Tuscaloosa; Barbara Drummond of Mobile; Berry Forte of Eufaula; Juandalynn Givan of Birmingham; Jeremy Gray of Opelika; Dexter Grimsley of Newville; Laura Hall of Huntsville; Rolanda Hollis of Birmingham; Ralph Howard of Greensboro; Thomas Jackson of Thomasville; Sam Jones of Mobile; Kelvin Lawrence of Hayneville; A.J. McCampbell of Livingston; Mary Moore of Birmingham; Tashina Morris of Montgomery; Neil Rafferty of Birmingham; John Rogers of Birmingham; and Pebblin Warren of Tuskegee.
This story was edited at 2:12 p.m. to correct the name of Rep. Chip Brown of Mobile.
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